Originally Posted by
dudalb
Technical Tactical victory for the Germans....they sank more tonnage then the Brits..but strategic victory for the British, since the German never again made a major sally with the Battle Fleet outside of German Coastal waters.
Kind of like the Coral Sea in 1942, where the Japanese won a tactical victory but suffered a strategic loss because they abandoned the amphibious assault on Port Moresby.
Just now catching up on this thread and simply had to put in a short derail about one of my pet topics.
I consider the Battle of the Coral Sea to be the turning point in the Pacific War, as opposed to the commoonly held view of Midway. Stopping the Japanese short of Moresby is what killed their momentum and took them off the offensive as well as all the logistical benefits that the Allies retained and that were denied to the Japanese.
Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.